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Jackson Progress-Argus
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter at
the Post Office at Jackson, Ga.
TELEPHONE NO. 166
OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN
TY AND CITY OF JACKSON
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South Georgia reports good stands
ol' tobacco. Another main cash crop
3’or that section us on th< way.
“Win with Roosevelt” seems to be
the accepted Democratic slogan this
year. “Roosevelt and Recovery
might he used.
An advertisement in the home
town newspaper is still worth ten on
the fence. Nobody wa> ever con
vinced by a circular.
When it comes to getting away
from the men they owe, some individ
uals can show the winner of the
Kentucky Derby a clean pair of heels
i '
Soon be time for the local com
munity canning plants to begin oper
ation. They have served a useful
purpose and will enjoy an enlarged
patronage in 19116.
The various civic clubs and city
authorities in Jackson an- doing good
work in promoting a Clean Up Week.
Whole heal ted support should be
given this campaign by every citizen.
After his recent slur on Gainet
\ille “our Gene” will not lose much
lime in the Queen City of the Mount
ains. Gainesville is coming out of
aa tough a situation as ever faced
i uy city of the state .
Of growing importance to the state
js the large plant industry in south
Georgia. Millions of potato and to
mato plants are shipped to all parts
< f the country, bringing thi growers
substantia! cash returns.
A few years ago it was thought
there would be a scarcity of lumber.
Not so. The state has been grow
ing trees in recent years and ha
enough timber for building material
and to supply paper mills.
It is far easier lor law making
bodies to spend money than it is for
the people to pay tax bills. Congres*
has been spending with a lavish hand
and paying time is not for distant.
A lot of explaining will have to be
done.
The Nashville Herald, Joe Lawrence
editor, recently issued a fine edition
of 36 pages telling of the advantages
and opportunities in Berrien county,
ti. was a spelndid edition and reflects
•credit on alt connected with ttu en
terprise.
Voters in their inteerst in the race
for governor should not lose sight of
of the fact that it is improtant to
send their best and ablest men to the
legislature. This is a time when
good men are needed in the genera!
assembly.
Rural citizens of Georgia want
mere lights and better lights. Sev
oral electrification projects will be
completed this year. It is the begin
ning of a brighter era for Georg#
when electricity is made possible ii>
all rural homes.
Back of the Fat Stock Shows be
ing held in Georgia is the important
fact that farmers can have fat bank
accounts by growing the right type
of beef cattle. With western beef
selling at from 40 to eO certs a
pound in Georgia markets, it is time
fur Georgians to wake up and get
some of this profit.
The three million dollars the high
way board is preparing to sjirfOW in
fixing roads damaged by tty** weather
is only a drop in the bucket to what
will have to be spent in the next
f v-ars if the highways continue
to get the same punishment they are
j. ,ecciving. Even before Geor
gia completes its highway system,
ome of the paving will be worn out.
For the next several months the
convention season will be in full
sv :vr and oratory will flow freely.
** vent:.ms bring large group.
together and afford an opportunity
for visitors to see different section
< .e Conventions are wprth
v hile, not forgetting the markets
they make* for farm products, as
ls one of the chief fune
t' wv'u o* wn rod
TAKE IT OR LEAVE I r
By J. D. JONES
The Pomona Products Company is
now canning asparagus and turtrp
greens at its plant in Griffin. This
L. the first season that asparagus has
been process. .1 at the Griffin plant.
Established primarily to can pimiento
peppers, the Pomona Products Com
pany has enlarged its activities and
new handles peaches in the summer
and asparagus and turnip greens in
the spring. This is a fine develop
ment and one that promises good
cash returns to truck growers in this
section. Georgia needs more canning
plan!.- The state produces all
fruits and vegetables abundantly
and these should be preserved for
consumption by home people.
Somebody who wants to do some
thing constructive for the eause of
education in Georgia should start a
movement to have all the county
senior high schools teach twelve
grades instead of eleven as at pres
ent, It is our understanding that
the high schools in Atlanta, Macon,
Savannah, Columbus, Augusta and
possibly other cities have twelve
grades, but most of the county high
schools have only eleven grades. It
is a notable fact that the average
high school student is graduated too
young and when he enters college he
doesn’t know what it is all about.
The graduate of the small town high
school finds the sledding tough when
he goes up against the older and
better prepared graduate of the
larger high schools. Not only would
an extra year added to the curricu
lum of the small town high school
better prepare the student for col
it ge life, but. this would result in a
large saving to the parents of the
state. The cry now and for a long
time has been more money for edu
cation. It is time some common
sense was injected into education and
thoroughness ami efficiency properly
stressed in all the schools. It tvould
be a reform that would meet with the
approval of the taxpayers.
Bonus checks, it is announced, will
be mailed next month. The payment
will be in the form of bonds, which
must be taken to the post office and
after complying with the terms pay
ment wil be made Jo veterans. The
bonds, in denominations of SSO each,
will be paid or they may be retained.
The government will throw every
possible safeguard around the bonus
payment. It has been estimated that
a good part of the bonus will be used
to construct and improve homes and
for investment purposes, including
insurance. That should be true.
North and middle Georgia have
swapped rains with south Georgia.
In this section the winter and early
spring season was one of the wettest
on record, but recently rains have
held up and some complaint is heard
over dry land and it is feared tner<:
will be some trouble in getting good
stands of crops. South Georgia, in
formation shows, has recently been
having plenty of rain. The crop
outlook over the state is not any too
encouraging, but farmers are plug
ging away and are determined to
make the best of the situation.
Of ali the names suggested for
governor, there is more interest, it
is believed, in the probable candidacy
of Judge Ogden Persons, of Forsyth,
and Solicitor General \V. Y. Atkin
si n. of Newnan, than any others.
Both are splendid, honest, courage
ous, upstanding Georgians and would
serve Georgia with honor and credit.
The present state campaign will
not be a long one. Entries will not
close until July and the primary will
be held September 9. Whdt the
campaign lacks in duration will he
made up in interest. Chances are
there will be a large number of can
didates and there will not be a dull
moment when the campaign gets in
full swing.
Not since the hurrah and fanfare
of the World War. when ireniendou*
efforts were made to stir the people
to an emotional pitch, has there been
such a barrage of publicity as it now
being witnessed. The New Deal has
its publicity experts, gobs of them,
and each and every agency Ls held up
a* a model of efficiency. The New
Deal is not letting any grass grow
under its feet. But people are sen
sible enough to know that the New
Deal has not sprouted wing.- and that
this business of reforming people
and changing habits and customs is
a slow and tedious process. Like
v ise critics of the adminitration art
busy. No good thing has come out
of Washington since Hoover left the
White House, and the administration
is criticised for what it has done and
failed to do. The great mass of
the American people have :-e s<
enough to know that things are better
than they were in 1932. Thi great
jest good for the greatest number of
THE JACKSON PROC.RFSS-ARGUS, JACKSON. GEORGIA
people is the important thing, and
some of the old mossbacks are holler
ing when their pocketbooks are pinch
ed. The good in the administration
far outweighs the hud. But in the
meantime typewriters are clicking a
merry tune and gobs of publicity are
coming out of the various political
camps. Usually it is the newspapers
that is meant to be the goat by
publishing this free stuff.
Communities looking for new in
dustries should never lose sight ot
the. fact that cheap taxes is one
of the greatest inducements. In
dustries may leave the crowded cen
ters and get out in the smaller cities.
Cheap taxes, abundant labor, good
health conditions, good schools and
churches and hearty co-operation by
the people are factors that usuai.y
decide the location of factories, fac
tories never go where they are :
wanted.
Judge Ogden Persons in his 1L
oriul Day addre.-.s in Jackson said
War Between the States was a
cal war. Slavery was only an un
dent. Truer words were ne'v
spoken. States’ rights died a - . Ap
j.omaltox and Once that day tin- v
ernment has become more centra.:-
zed. Politicians may talk ab -A
states’ rights ail they please, ut
there is no such thing. Washing! n
is now the center and scat of tewu
and we have to trot up there to ge*.
road money and school money and
healthy money. States, like indiv i
uals, depend less on their own re
sources and more on the government.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Industrial Tariffs a Subsidy
“Farmers,” says an eastern publi
cation, “are turning away from
Washington for relief and are be
- todepend more on their w
resources.” These arc trite w ro
an and also meaningless ones. The
farmer did not go voluntarily to
Washington in search of relief He
went there because industrialists,
who already had obtained great con
cessions from the federal govern
ment, compelled him to go in self
defense. We are not greatly wor
ried about the attitude of the farm
er but we do wish the; industrialists
of the nation would learn to depend
less upon tariffs enacted at Wash
ington and more upon their own
energy, initiative and resources. The
tariff is. in effect, a subsidy and
every intelligent industrialist know
it.—Dawson News.
Setting The Pace
A good many reasons have been
offered to explain why people go in
debt and spend more than they
should. Some say it is because of
Tigh pressure salesmen. Others say
that installment buying is the rock
that sank us. Asa matter of fact,
the trouble in most cases is due to
the fact that the Smiths have been
trying to keep up with the Joneses,
who have been trying to keep up with
the Browns and so on.—Butler Her
ald.
Both Have Done Well
We know not whom to commend
most .the citizens of Gainesville for
their indomitable spirit and determ
ination, or the people of* Georgia for
spontaneous generosity and abound
ing symathy. Both are examples
well worth emulating and following
—Carroll*County Times.
And That’* One of the Problem*
You can’t have law observance
where the offeers close their eyes
to law violations.—Tifton Gazette.
Tough on The Judge*
The gavernor has turned hi? law
suit over to judges of his own nam
ing and has already told his follow
ers to beat the sand out of any
judge who dared oppose his policies.
So now it’s up to the judges.—Madi
son Madisonian.
Dry Issue Not Dead
While nothing is being said about
it now w-hile senate and house mem
bers are being chosen, it can be de
pended on the prohibition issue will
be one of the bones to pick on at the
next general session of the gerrprai
assembly. The wets are so encour
aged over the present situation that
they will leave no stone unturned to
bring back barrooms.—Thomasville
Press.
About <OO farm women in Georgia
last year kept demonstration farm
home account records of what they
spent for food, clothing, shelter and
other needs of the home, and their
reports show that the records proved
very helpful in making savings and
in budgeting their cash. One wo
man who kept such a record in 1933
signed an affidavit that it has allow
ed her to cut expenses one-fourth,
bounty home demonstration agents
jar® in charge of the demonstrations.
LOOKING BACKWARD
THROUGH THE FILES
Nr, X 5 IMu > Ago
The gvw . S.. v .•>*.> school excur
sion to V,*. , r tv she principal topic
of the wwi
The iw*:v o, n oi Butts
county w'-v s ythe public school
term e.i .J-ovi -vortHs for the year
18S5 tr£ .■ ,v ■ ;•. fourth week of
June.
Tbs v*-.c-’. vexvjon ot the legisla
ture or. Wednesday. The
whose vole e ft he >*.xU as 22,770.
the szv.*bev; ewr pelted irs Georgia.
Governor McXXxr.'el was inaugurated
lass Thursday.
S.sroe the recent freshet the mail
from thus idaec to Covington has
been changes*, from three times to
twice a week
New* ot 25 \V*r* Age
The death of Col Y. A. Wright
i-vvurrec \V ; . r.esday.
W ... a . Bryan was booked as an
attract-.or, tor the Jackson Ohautau
v j Laiu
the :acuity of the Jackson schools
inrtmtrd W. R. Imunt, superintcnd
cm. GeorgM.:vg\ m rf, principal;
Misses Cc-.mrt'” srd Alexander, high
sch. . M’.ssvs Arden. Jenkins. Wal
drer ar.d heath, grammar school;
.M:ss*s Burch and Edwards. primary
grades-
Br.f.s e runty veterans were to
leave Sunday for Little Rock to at
tend the Confederate veterans re
| union.
Officers . f the Butts County Sun
• uay School convention were J. M.
Me ML* hat.. piesident; J. H. Mill s ,
vie-. prv-st.teEt. E. E. Harper, secre
tary.
CHANGES MADE IN NEW
FEDERAI FARM PROGRAM
RATES OF PAY FOR GROWERS
TAKING PART FIXED AND
OTHER INFORMATION OF IN
TEREST POINTED OUT.
Rates of payments Georgia farm
ers will get for adopting the differ
ent soil building practices under the
new soil conservation program were
received this week by County Agent
M. L. PowelL
The County Agent has also re
ceived an announcement of recent
change? that simplify the program.
He says there are now only two
classes of crops; soil depleting and
soil conserving. Enlarging the list
of soil building practices has elimina
ted the soil building class of crops.
Farmers will get the specific soil
building payments for the practices
they adopt, in addition to the soil
conserving payments they get for
shifting crop land from soil deplet
ing crops.
Under the approved rates for
Georgia, farmers will get $2 for
each acre of crop land seeded to
alfalfa, sericea, or kudzu between
January 1 and October 31, 1936.
They will get $1.50 an acre for crop
land seeded during the same time
to red clover, mammoth clover, sweet
clover, or annual lespedeza. They
will get $1 per acre for crop land
seeded during the same period ta
alsike, white, bur or crimson clover,
Austrian winter peas, vetch or other
locally adapted winter legumes, or
I to approved legume mixture.
This is for seeding legumes. Pay
ments will be made for making spec
ified use of soil conserving crops.
For soybeans, velvet beans, cowpeas,
crotalaria, beggar weed and other
locally adapted summer legumes
fanners will get $1.50 per acre if
growm on crop land in 1936 if the
vines or stalks are left on the land
and the seed are not harvested for
oil mill crushing, and $2 per acre if
plowed under green.
Farmers will be paid $1.50 • for
each acre of crimson clover, bur
clover, Austrian winter peas, vetch
or other locally adapted winter le
gumes they turn under between Jan
uary 1 and October 31, 1936. They
will get $1 per acre for rye, oats,
barley,. Italian rye grass, wheat or
mixture of these turned as green ma
nure after making reasonable (not
less than two months) growth in the
spring of 1936. They will get $1
per acre for any sorghum, sudan
grass, or millet seeded soiled or
broadeast between January 1 and
j July. 31, 1936.
For establishing permanent pasture
with either perennial grasses or
Community Confidence
It is essential to good business to believe
in one’s self - to believe in one’s neigh
bors and community.
The chronic kickers knock at everything
except the door of opportunity, until they
become a thorn|in the side of their com
munity.
Give our community more believers and
you will soon see a citizenship working
miracles.
Community confidence is the keynote
to civic and commercial achievement. Cul
tivate it.
The valuable service rendered every in
terest of the people of Butts county evi
dences our confidence in our community.
JACKSON NATIONAL BANK
JACKSON, GEORGIA
grass and legume mixture between!
January 1 and October 31, 1936, 1
farmers will get $2 per acre. Theyj
will get $5 per acre for planting crop
land or pasture land to forest trees j
between September 1, 1935 and!
March 31, 1936.
The payment for properly terrac
ing land that needs it will bo 40
cents per 100 feet of completed ter
race. not to exceed $2 per acre, buit
according to approved methods.
Farmers will get a payment of up
to $2.80 per acre for applying lime
stone to their land according to ap
proved practices, depending on the
amount they apply. They will get
up to $2.50 an acre for applying sup
erphosphate according to approved
CHAMPIONS
who have
NEVER KNOWN DEFEAT
Rock ami Tom. oitm-il I’y the Statler Farm* Cos., Piifwi, Ohio. Driver, Rimt-Ii
SanJn. Their J>n\*enS record —>9<>o lie*, motile pull, hich is ,v,itiVnlrtil to
pulling 9 pious culling porous 14 inches wide ami 6 inches deep.
WHAT A RECORD! Never have these mighty champions been
beaten. They’ve out-pulled every team they’ve ever mrt.
These magnificent Belgians are Nature at her best. They are
animals to hich Nature has given the vital spark—(hat necessary,
natural balance of all the elements of which champions are made.
Natural balance is everything! It’s the difference between this
team of powerful champions and common, ordinary plugs. It’s the
difference between the best and the rest in almost everything.
And here’s another example of Nature at her best Natural
Chilean Nitrate. This nitrogen fertilizer Is favored by Nature with
the champion’s vital spark the natural balance of the elements
that make a champion. Into Chilean Nitrate Nature blended the
vital impt ritie* the combination of many major and minor ele
tr.cr.ts over and beyond nitrogen. Through countless centuries,
Nature has aged and matured this nitrogen Lrtlllzpr In the ground,
that you may return it to your ground as the safe, surp, balanced
food for your crops.
Natural Chiletm oonfttitw übnmt too score „f nut jut
on<l minor elements ■in h m boron, mugm-Wiitn, man
jfunesc, iodine, ( ale (ton. /lolnssiton, et. em It n vital
demon in grouth and healthy do do/nnem of /.hints.
(cEptiEAN NITRATE
OF SODA
WITH VITAL IMPURITIES IK NATURES OWN RALANCE AND BLEND
FRIDAY, MAY 8, 193*;
practices on soil conserving crops or
pastures excluding- soybeans, cow
peas, velvet beans, peanuts and an
nua grasses.
The total soil building payment
for a farm cannot exceed an amount
of money equal to $1 for each acre
in soil conserving crops in 1936.
It is estimated that th eannual sale
of prepared dog food in this country
totaled $40,000,000 last year.
See those beautiful Nelly
Don Dresses just arrived.
You will be amazed at the
prices so reasonable during
this sale. Come in tomor
row, look them over.
THE BUSY CORNER